Entrance to Rabat/Sale - The Kasbah of the Udyas Do the locations inspire the story, or does the story give meaning to the locations?  I...

Options at Port St Louis du Rhone In 2023, when we were working on Kim  at Port Napoleon, we rented an apartment in Port St Louis du...

Kim's Keel It seems to me that if you’re going to have ballast, it may as well be in the right place, and the lifting keel of our...

Crew Member Ed and the "Angry Ensign" in a Squall Kim stayed at Puerto Calero marina in Lanzarote while we returned to England.  On the...

"Kango" Type Hammer with Special Bit This is an account of the precautions we took to avoid interactions as we left the Mediterranean...

Kim  rounded Cape Spartel, the north westerly point of Africa on the morning of 31st July, and sailed out into the broad blue waters of...

We’ve had an interesting summer cruise in Kadash  aka “ Kim ”, our 40' aluminium sailboat.  As usual, there was work to be done when we...

We have a small number of pictures painted by my wife's grandmother that we framed and hung on the walls of our house. Sally’s...

At the end of a long pebble beach in Dorset, England, is the Isle of Portland, a rugged limestone promontory.  Portland is the home of...

Murat King of Naples by Francis Gerand The French Revolution, as do all revolutions, gave opportunities to able men and women, Napoleon...

I’ve been lucky enough to visit three islands associated with Napoleon Bonaparte – the island of his birth, Corsica – and the two islands...

My new novel, “Cape Corse”, has just been published, available here on Amazon: Cape Corse. As I explained in a previous blog, it was...

The inspiration for my latest book, “Cape Corse”, came during our 2022 visit to Corsica in our sailing boat Kim. Arrival in Calvi after...

Kipling’s MacAndrew’s Hymn is one of my favourite poems, probably because I used to be a marine engineer. This is an extract: Fra...

Our objective for 2023 was to take Kadash, AKA Kim, our 40’ aluminium lift keel yacht, from Port Napoleon at the mouth of the Rhone,...

A few years ago, I inherited responsibility for the upkeep of the family field near Corfe Castle, in Dorset. Dorset Wildlife Trust...

We’ve recently returned from France, where we did some work on our 42 foot aluminium sailboat, Kadash, AKA “Kim”. The boat is ashore at...

La Ciotat, just to the east of Marseille, is an excellent port, and in its bay, surrounded by pine clad hills, shelter can be found from...

Yesterday we noticed that the paperback edition of Weymouth Bound climbed to third position in the Amazon "Lad Lit" category. I hadn't...

Practical Boat Owner magazine www.pbo.co.uk features an article about the restoration of Mitch, our 31 foot Mitchell Sea Angler, which...